Mechanics of Business

If I were to take a course in business strategy I woul probably get an F-; Here's why. Today Verizon and Mozilla announced support for LiMo a rival wireless platform to Google's Android. I can totally understand why Verizon would do that, they own the networks and they want to own the data going over the networks as well. Now why would Mozilla do that. Unless my memory is failin me, was google not the company that pumped in millions of dollars into Firefox which one can easily say is the flagship product from Mozilla. What am I missing?